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Making Moros
Imperial Historicism and American Military Rule in the Philippines’ Muslim South
- Publisher
- Northern Illinois University Press
- Year
- 2013
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 185
- ISBN
- 9780875804590
- Availability
- In print
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About the book
How the American officers who ruled the Moro Province wrote its people into a story of savagery and progress, and used that story to govern.
This book looks at how American officers made Muslim colonial subjects of the Moros during the military rule of the southern Philippines, from 1899 to 1913. Michael C. Hawkins argues that ideas of time, history and evolution, more than simple ideas of race, guided how Americans studied, sorted and tried to remake the Moros. He also shows Moros taking part in shaping their own identity as modern subjects.
The 4 chapters cover American "imperial taxonomies", the disruption of Moro society and the campaign against slavery and debt bondage, capitalism offered as a cure, and modernity and colonial guilt. An epilogue looks at how this period is remembered.
Hawkins draws on archives in the United States and the Philippines. A review in the Journal of Southeast Asian Studies noted how the book shows ordinary Moros living through American policy.
"This book offers a unique look at the colonial creation of Muslim subjects during the early years of American rule in the southern Philippines. It examines the Islamic Philippines during its most formative period in modernity--a period indispensible to discussions of integration in the Filipino Islamic South"--
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